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Joan Martínez-Alier joined the Department of Economics and Economic History in 1975.  He has directed the Doctoral Programme in Environmental Sciences (in the option of Ecological Economics and Environmental Management) since 1997, at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) of the UAB.  He has been a research fellow / senior associate member of St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, and visiting professor at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brasil), Free University of Berlin, Stanford University and University of California (Davis), Yale University, and FLACSO Sede-Ecuador. His research interests comprise Agrarian History, Environmental History, Ecological Economics, Environmental Policy, Political Ecology. 

 

He is the author of many academic articles, and a member of the editorial committee of Ecological Economics, Environmental Values, Journal of Agrarian Change and other journals. He edits the journal Ecología Política (Icaria Editorial, Barcelona).  Since 2000 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency. He is a founding member and former president of the International Society for Ecological Economics. His main books (in English) include Ecological Economics: Energy Environment and Society (1987), Varieties of Environmentalism: Essays North and South (with Ramachandra Guha, 1997), The Environmentalism of the Poor: a Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation (2002). With Robert Costanza and Olman Segura he edited Getting down to earth: practical applications of ecological economics (1996), and with Inge Ropke he edited Recent Developments in Ecological Economics (2 vols, 2008).  He is co-editor with Pushpam Kumar of the series Ecological Economics and Human Well-being (Oxford U.P.. Delhi).